Information on Population

GEO 2000 - A coordinated network of Collaborating Centres is the core
of the GEO process. These centres have played an increasingly
important role in preparing GEO reports. They are now responsible
for almost all the regional inputs, thus combining top-down integrated
assessment with bottom-up environmental reporting. A number of
Associated Centres also participate, providing specialized expertise.
Four working groups ?on modelling, scenarios, policy and data
?provide advice and support to the GEO process, helping coordinate
the work of the Collaborating Centres to make their outputs as
comparable as possible. Other United Nations agencies contribute
to the GEO Process through the United Nations System-wide Earthwatch,
coordinated by UNEP. In particular, they provide substantive data
and information on the many environmentally-related issues that
fall under their individual mandates; they also help review drafts.

Population & Habitat Campaign - National Audubon Society has launched a major new initiative
to build a public mandate for population and family planning and
to connect the issues of population growth with habitat. Through
this program, Audubon will draw upon its chapters and other community
leadership to educate and mobilize citizens from around the country
to confront population and environment problems and to communicate
with policy makers. The National Audubon Society has embarked
on a broad-based effort to strengthen U.S. leadership on population,
utilizing its expertise in grassroots activism.